Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-25

The new offer for the Derby railroad dis poses of several of the objections made to the other one. It ought not to take long to set tie the matter this time.
 It is now estimated that the Panama canal will cost $500, ,000, 900 if it is ever done. De Lesseps said at the beginning that it could be built for sixth of that sum.
 An Indiana scientist has found out what
 "a snaiI's pace" is. He tried six of the mel lusks on a race track ten feet long and found that they travelled on the average at the pace of one mile in fourteen days.
 A great marble deposit has been found in Inyo county, California. The marble is of a superior quality, hard, solid and free from flint. A recent test resulted in crushing an inch cube of the Inyo marble at 26, 900 pounds pressure, while Vermont marble was crushed at 5000 pounds and Italian marble at 10, ,000 pounds. The varieties are of al most every color known to marble.
 Although the tax levied on drummers in the District of Columbia was not paid by many drummers some commercial brokers made fortunes by paying license for them selves and farming this license out at from $50 to $150 to each man desiring to open his sample cases. One of these brokers recently retired from business with fortune of about s1OO, ,O0O, which he had ground out of the representatives of every business in terest in
 the country, from the Minneapolis miller to the New York importer and the Boston shoe n,anufacfurer n,
 Some of the preachers of Camden, New Jersey, have reason to thank the stars that the town is a popular place with those who want to tgo somewhere and get married
 Mr. Dobbins averages 40 couples month and as his average fee is $4 8 couple he makes
 about $6, ,720 year. MT. Sleeper unites about sixty couples month, receiving about the same average fee. He has had diagram Autographed, showing the most direct route from the ferries to his house. Altogether the clergymen of Camden make fully $25, ,0oC | year out of the marriage business.
 l A bill now pending in the Florida legisla 1 ture will have general approval. It makes it | unlawful to kill any blue or white heron or | other plume bird in the State; to sell or ex- pose for sale any such birds, their plumes or skins, stuffed or prepared in any way; or to
 have any such birds, plumes, or skins in
 possession with intent to sell or to carry out of the State. It further provides that when
 anybody is proved to have more than five
 such birds in his or her possession the un-
 lawful intent shall be presumed. It fixes the | fine on conviction at five dollars for every l bird or plume. Half the fine is to go to the | informer, and the other half to the school | fund.
 | The refusal of Congress to consider the
 claim of the people of Dakota for admission l to the Union is looked on as very unjust ir ! that territory. And there is not little req | son for this way of looking at the matter | At the last election the number of votes cas
 for delegate to Congress was 99,164, about four times the whole number of votes cas- for ten members of the house in Georgia
 and considerably more than the whole popu
 lation of Nevada The school system of thu
 territory is admirable. More than five thou
 sand teachers are employed in the publi
 schools, which are attended by eighty -thre
 thousand pupils. Thirteen States of tn
 Union have each a smaller number of school
 than Dakota. There are more than thou
 sand postoffices in the territory, of which 4
 are presidential. There are 252 banks o
 deposit, of which 52 are national banks
 There are twenty-five States, each of whicl
 has fewer than this number of banks.
 There are some far-seeing people in thi world One of them writes to the Cincinnati
 Commercial Gazette as follows: From th